If The State Puts Enough Money Into It
Any conclusion can be found.
A Comeback for Lamarckian Evolution?
Two new studies show that the effects of a mother’s early environment can be passed on to the next generation.
Humans don’t discover things that are true, they discover things they want to be true. This is one of the big problems with global warming.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Are you doubting epigenetic research? If so, I believe you will be fighting a losing battle.
February 17th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I don’t get it. Are you arguing with the science, or what?
February 17th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
That’s what I’m trying to figure out….
February 21st, 2009 at 11:46 pm
“Humans don’t discover things that are true, they discover things they want to be true. This is one of the big problems with global warming.”
This seems to sum up the reasoning on this blog. It’s an exercise in dogmatism and confirmation seeking.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
To the extent that humans are limited by their neurology to be biased towards confirmation, I would agree that enableate has such bias.
March 5th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Pardon my confusion — and this is not insincere — but what does that mean? Is that a defense of ideological blindness based in some way on a denial of free will? If so — if our orientation toward information is all neurologically determined — then is the rightness of your views premised somehow on the notion that you got lucky, that you are neurologically predisposed to be correct and that the liberals (or whoever the bad guys are) are not? If what I’m proposing is not a caricature of your view, then please do appreciate the implications of what you are saying for all areas of knowledge — from epistemology to the most scientific of natural sciences. Perhaps you have in mind some kind of neurological relativism: What is true — including the correct laws of thoughts — depends on ones neurological predispositions. At the least you have a new version of foundationalism for epistemology. Again, I’m not insincere (a cardinal (intellectual) crime for me).